Compactness of a nonlinear eigenvalue problem with a singular nonlinearity

Communications in Contemporary Mathematics

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 17-45

  Esposito, Pierpaolo ^a,b  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Compactness; Critical parameter; Electrostatic MEMS; Morse index

Indexed keywords

EID: 44349087152     PISSN: 02191997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219199708002697     Document Type: Article

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